VOA常速英语:Arches National Park in Utah Attracts More Than a Million Visitors a Year

The Three Gossips, Parade of Elephants, North Window, the Organ, Tower of Babel, those are just a few of some 2 thousands of arch sculptures, in one of the most famous national parks in the United States, the Arches.The other world terrain of the park reminiscent of Mars was formed by the tectonic shifts that took place here millions of years ago.And the wind gives the sandstone its original form. You get the feeling here that time has stopped.
三个聊天人、象行、北窗、管风琴、巴比伦塔，美国最有名的国家公园之一——拱门国家公园有约两千个拱门建筑，这些只是其中一小部分。公园的另一个自然地貌让人想起了火星，它是由数百万年前的地质构造变化形成的，而风赋予了砂岩原始的形态。你会感觉到时间已经停止了。

“But I do think that the rocks have stories to tell.” “Such as?”
但我真的觉得这些岩石有故事要讲。比如呢？

“Such as where they were born? Whether or not it was blowing sand dune desert, or a coastal flat plain tidal flat.If you look at them closely and they can tell you a little bit about, what the world was like at the time that they were born.And also a little bit about what the world has been like in the last, say, million years.”
比如它们在哪里出生？无论是在扬沙的大漠沙丘，还是在沿海的平原滩涂。如果你靠近了仔细观察它们，它们会为你讲述它们出生时这世界是什么样子的。还有一些比如百万年前这世界是什么样子的。

The Arches National Park is just over 300 square kilometers.The first stop after you take the ornate road is Park Avenue viewpoint. In 1888 Steven Spielberg used this location for his famous

“Right, it’s very beginning of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, young India is riding with his Boy Scout troop.It’s an easy place for everyone to get to, but it’s one of the first experiences many people have when they come to the park.”
就在《夺宝奇兵之圣战奇兵》的开始部分，年轻的印第安纳和他的童子军在这里骑行。这里对每个人来说都是一个容易到达的地方，但这是很多人来到公园的第一个经历。

The most famous arch is the 18-meter Delicate Arch.It is considered the main attraction of the park and is depicted on Utah’s license plates.In 2002 during the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, the Olympic torch was carried beneath it.Many of the park’s arches were formed from pink sandstone. Some of them have a two-color structure, where the second component is orange in color. Multicolored layers are clearly visible on those arches.The park is very popular among tourists, who come here not only to admire the surrounding beauty, but also hike explore and climb their peaks.
最著名的拱门是18米的精致拱门，它被认为是公园的主要景点，并被描绘在犹他州的车牌上。在2002年盐湖城冬奥会期间，奥运火炬传递时穿过该拱门。公园的许多拱门是由粉红色的砂岩构成的，其中一些拱门是双色的，橙色是双色拱门的第二要素。在这些拱门上色彩斑斓的图层清晰可见。公园很受游客欢迎，他们在这里不仅可以欣赏周围的美景，还可以徒步探险和攀登高峰。

“Many people, they’re looking for something, maybe they’ve already seen a few images and so that they’re looking the sort of go capture those similar images.Other people have come may be the kind of recapture their previous visit.” The arches park was first opened in 1892, only 500 people visited in the first year, now almost a century later more than a million come each year. Everyone discovers something new.Park ranger Lee Ferguson who has been working here for many years never ceases sees it to be amazed.
很多人在寻找某种东西，或许他们已经看到了一些图像，他们正在寻找、去捕捉相似的图像，其他人的到访可能是在重现他们之前的访问。拱门公园于1892年首次开放，第一年只有500人参观，差不多一个世纪后的今天，每年都有超过100万人前来参观。每个人都会发现新的东西。公园管理员李·弗格森多年来一直在这里工作，他一直对此赞叹不已。

“I have a personal connection to a landscape and the things that live on the landscape.I’ve worked here for number of years and I really feel like all the plants I see are my friends.”
我跟这里的景物和景区的植物有一种私密关系，我在这里工作了好几年，我真的觉得我看到的所有植物都是我的朋友。

Ferguson like many others believes that it’s important to preserve national parks including the arches, not only for the sake of beauty and maintenance of unique local ecosystems, but also because they are American national treasures.
像其他许多人一样，弗格森认为保护包括拱门在内的国家公园很重要，不仅为了美观和维护独特的当地生态系统，而且因为它们是美国国家宝藏。

Alex Yanevskyy of VOA News the Arches National Park Yuda.
VOA记者亚历山大犹他州拱门国家公园播报。